US: Officials’ Pandemic Response Impaired Right to Vote
(Washington, DC, September 22, 2020) – Responses by election officials in the United States to the Covid-19 pandemic seriously impaired some people’s ability to vote in primary elections, Human Rights...
View ArticleRussian Repression a Persistent Reality in Crimea
Click to expand Image Crimean Solidarity activists in the defendant’s box during sentencing, September 16, 2020. © Private Last week, a Russian military court sentenced seven Crimean Tatars to prison...
View ArticleChina: Quash Verdict Against Outspoken Tycoon
Click to expand Image Ren Zhiqiang, former Chairman of Huayuan Property Co. Ltd., attends an event in Chengdu city, Sichuan province, China on April 25, 2018. © 2018 Imaginechina via AP Images (New...
View ArticlePakistan Court’s Mental Health Ruling Promises Reform
Click to expand Image The Supreme court building is seen in Islamabad, Pakistan, July 17, 2017. © 2017 AP Photo/Anjum Naveed On September 21, the Pakistan Supreme Court directed a medical board to...
View ArticleTurkmenistan: Denial, Inaction Worsen Food Crisis
Click to expand Image A woman sells herbs in Ashgabat. © 2018 TIHR (New York) – Government inaction in response to the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic has drastically exacerbated...
View ArticleMyanmar: Stop Prosecuting Peaceful Protesters
Click to expand Image Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, left, and President Win Myint, wearing face masks to protect against the new coronavirus, leave after a Central Executive Committee meeting at...
View ArticleLebanon Risks Another Trash Crisis
Click to expand Image A beach where a heavy winds and strong waves washed ashore piles of garbage in Keserwan, north of Beirut, Lebanon, on 23 January 2018. © 2018 Marwan...
View ArticleUK Seeks to Stop Justice for War Crimes
Click to expand Image British troops conduct a dawn foot patrol in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, May 10, 2013. © 2013 Ben Birchall/Press Association via AP Images The rule of law means that those...
View ArticleSyria’s 100 Dollar Barrier to Return
Click to expand Image Members of the Lebanese General Security Directorate oversee Syrian refugees boarding a bus to take them home to Syria, in the northern Beirut suburb of Burj Hammoud, Lebanon,...
View ArticleCameroon: Soldiers Get 10 Years for Murder of Civilians
Click to expand Image A screenshot of the video showing soldiers taking a woman and a child to the place where they would be later killed in Zelevet, Far North region, Cameroon, 2015. © 2018 BBC...
View ArticleAustralia: Harsh Police Response During Covid-19
Click to expand Image Police Public Order Response Teams respond to a small group of protesters who appeared at a shopping center and quickly dispersed before any arrests could be made during pop-up...
View ArticleQatar: Significant Labor and Kafala Reforms
Click to expand Image Workers in Katara cultural heritage village in Doha, Qatar. © 2018 Ramil Sitdikov / Sputnik via AP (Beirut) – The success of the significant labor reform measures that Qatar...
View ArticleCuba’s Government Throws Its Repressive Playbook at a Journalist
Click to expand Image Journalist Camila Acosta wears a facemask saying “no to Decree 370,” a 2019 law curtailing free speech in Cuba, on August 1, 2020. © Camila Acosta The Cuban government’s brutal...
View ArticleGuinea: Security Forces Failed to Stem Election Violence
(Nairobi) – Guinea’s security forces failed to protect people from election-related and intercommunal violence and committed human rights abuses in Nzérékoré, southeastern Guinea, during legislative...
View ArticleHong Kong: Stop Prosecuting Pro-Democracy Activists
Click to expand Image Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong displays a bail paper outside Central Police Station in Hong Kong, Thursday, September 24, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Vincent Yu (New...
View ArticleAfghans Tentatively Talk Peace in a Year of Rising Violence
Click to expand Image Friends and families of people killed in the conflict gathered in a cemetery to call for a ceasefire from the parties to the intra-Afghan peace talks taking place in Doha, Qatar,...
View ArticleTracking the Trillions: 6-Month Checkup on IMF’s Covid-19 Emergency Aid
The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated already staggering levels of economic inequality in many countries around the world. Now there is a real risk that trillions of dollars meant to support those...
View ArticleChina: 12 Hong Kong Protesters Held Incommunicado
Click to expand Image Relatives of 12 Hong Kong activists apprehended at sea by Chinese authorities call for their family members to be returned to the territory, saying their legal rights were being...
View ArticleGuinea: Stadium Massacre Victims Await Justice
Click to expand Image In Guinea’s capital, Conakry, family members cry after identifying the body of a relative killed on September 28, 2009, when security forces fired on opposition supporters as...
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